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Keeping schools open in the next pandemic
To avoid full school closures in the next pandemic, or even epidemic, epidemiologists need crucial information from schools, students, and parents.
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Ye banks and Bayes
Are you going to be a good customer for your bank? This might not worry you, but it certainly worries your bank! Banks would like to be able to predict both who their most profitable clients are likely to be, and which potential clients are most likely to be unreliable or a poor risk.
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Game theory and the Cuban missile crisis
Steven J. Brams uses the Cuban missile crisis to illustrate the Theory of Moves, which is not just an abstract mathematical model but one that mirrors the real-life choices, and underlying thinking, of flesh-and-blood decision makers.
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The mathematics of diseases
Over the past one hundred years, mathematics has been used to understand and predict the spread of diseases, relating important public-health questions to basic infection parameters. Matthew Keeling describes some of the mathematical developments that have improved our understanding and predictive…
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Maths in a minute: Inverse problems
Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. They can help solve crimes, are used in medical imaging, and much more.
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Searching for answers
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines' flight MH370 was dramatically narrowed last week due to a mathematical analysis of satellite signals from the plane. Careful analysis of just a handful of data points has focussed the search on an area in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Spinning the wheel: The Ehrenfest paradox
Meet a fascinating thought experiment close to the speed of light.
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Providing the best evidence
How do mathematicians help policy makers make the best decisions?
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Helping maths to help us
The mathematics of the future needs more specialist maths teachers, stronger university provision, and sustained research funding.
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Maths can take you anywhere
Ahead of this summer’s exam results, the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences took its Maths Can Take You Anywhere campaign into thousands of schools and colleges across the UK, highlighting the many career pathways that mathematics can open up for students.
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Measles cases on the rise: Why this is worrying and what we can do
We look at the recent rise in measles cases, why it has led to a national health incident being declared, and what can be done to avert the threat.
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Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.
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Explore: Differential equations
One thing that will never change is the fact that the world is constantly changing, and differential equations are the way we mathematically describe the changing world around us.